plight
/plaɪt/
- n.
- 困境，窘境
- vt.
- 宣誓，保证
中文释义来自 ECDICT
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- 英语English
plight
词源说明
From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk"; see Etymology 2) and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)).
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plight3词源 3
词源链
- 英语English
plight
词源说明
From Middle English plyghten, plyȝten, pleyȝten, pleiten, pliten, from the noun (see below).